January 2013
January 22nd, 2013
Written by Alonzo Weston in Latest News, "Sticky Wicket" Questions with 0 Comments
Dear Sticky Wicket,
Why do you think the reaction to the shooting at Sandy Hook has been so widespread and persistently discussed in the news when gun violence against children occur in major urban areas on a daily basis? Do you think if the shooting had occurred at a poor urban school that the outrage would have been the same or as long lasting?
~Irritated in Chicago
Dear Irritated,
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January 21st, 2013
Written by Cathy Spaulding... in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Visitors to the Cherokee Immersion Charter School are told not to speak English in the classrooms.
Notices throughout the school say "You are entering an endangered language habitat, the only existing habitat where children are being taught Cherokee."
Cherokee is spoken, heard, written, and read in each classroom of this school which goes from pre-kindergarten through...
January 20th, 2013
Written by Jesse Washingto... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
This sentence spoken by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been quoted countless times as expressing one of America's bedrock values, its language almost sounding like a constitutional amendment on equality.
Yet today, 50...
January 18th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise, Latest News with 0 Comments
Many low-income kids arrive at school hungry everyday due to “food insecurity” and that means lower scores or even dropping out. But the good news is more low-income students and schools are participating in breakfast programs, according to the Food Research and Action Center’s (FRAC) latest School Breakfast Scorecard released January 15, 2013. Chief among the ways to ensure children have the...
January 18th, 2013
Written by Nicholas Paphit... in Latest News, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Police in Athens are holding two Greek men as suspects in the fatal stabbing of a Pakistani immigrant worker near the city center on Thursday, and are investigating whether the attack was racially motivated.
A police statement said the 26-year-old Pakistani man was attacked on his bicycle by two men on a motorbike before dawn in the Petralona district of Athens.
The two...